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  2. Social law - Wikipedia

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    Social law is an unified concept of law, which replaces the classical division of public law and private law.The term has both been used to mean fields of law that fall between "core" private and public subjects, such as corporate law, competition law, labour law and social security, [1] or as a unified concept for the whole of the law based on associations.

  3. Legal evolution - Wikipedia

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    Legal evolution is a branch of legal theory which proposes that law and legal systems change and develop according to regular, natural laws. [1] [2] It is closely related to social evolution and was developed in the 18th century, peaking in popularity in the 19th century before entering a prolonged hiatus. [3]

  4. Libertarian theories of law - Wikipedia

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    The defining characteristics of libertarian legal theory are its insistence that the amount of governmental intervention should be kept to a minimum and the primary functions of law should be enforcement of contracts and social order, though social order is often seen as a desirable side effect of a free market rather than a philosophical ...

  5. Law and development - Wikipedia

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    Adam Smith stated in his Lectures on Jurisprudence that “the imperfection of the law and the uncertainty in its application” was a factor that retarded commerce. [1] Max Weber, a philosopher of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, explained the importance of “rational” law in economy and society. [2]

  6. Law and economics - Wikipedia

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    Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law. The field emerged in the United States during the early 1960s, primarily from the work of scholars from the Chicago school of economics such as Aaron Director , George Stigler , and Ronald Coase .

  7. Rule according to higher law - Wikipedia

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    The rule according to higher law is a practical approach to the implementation of the higher law theory that creates a bridge of mutual understanding (with regard to universal legal values) between the English-language doctrine of the rule of law, traditional for the countries of common law, and the originally German doctrine of Rechtsstaat ...

  8. Opinion - Do World Trade Organization laws still exist? - AOL

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    International law still exists. We in the U.S. might begin by remembering this, in trade and in much else. Former Rep. James Bacchus (R-Fla.) is professor of global affairs at the University of ...

  9. Economic law - Wikipedia

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    With regards to the role of the government, the primary responsibility of the state is to ensure there is an effective infrastructure for businesses to conduct in a free market society, where private ownership is key. [8] What constitutes an effective infrastructure (which economic law is a segment of) differs between states.